--- title: When people say an adult has a new lady friend or boyfriend, they me… — Friends, teams and fair play · tree and pragmatics description: When people say an adult has a new lady friend or boyfriend, they mean a new girlfriend or partner, and that is the adult's private business. Who acts: people, adult, that. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, adult, that), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:052-friends-teams-and-fair-play.lesson:23 # text = When people say an adult has a new lady friend or boyfriend, they mean a new girlfriend or partner, and that is the adult's private business. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 052-friends-teams-and-fair-play.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 2 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ _ 4 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 8 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 9 lady lady NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 11 or or CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 boyfriend boyfriend NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 14 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 mean mean VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 girlfriend girlfriend NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 19 or or CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 partner partner NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 23 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 29 nsubj _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod:poss _ _ 27 's 's PART POS _ 26 case _ _ 28 private private ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 business business NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | people | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **have** | present | a adult | a new lady friend or boyfriend | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Patient | | 3 | **mean** | present | People | a new girlfriend or partner | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girlfriend=Topic | | 4 | **is a** | present | that | the adult's private business | | | | | tree rules | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:everyday:052-friends-teams-and-fair-play.lesson:23`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Friends, teams and fair play, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/52-friends-teams-and-fair-play/21/) - next →: [Feelings and calming down, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/53-feelings-and-calming-down/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/52-friends-teams-and-fair-play/)